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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6338 Location: Derby
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Rootes75 wrote: | I recall my Father telling me that when he was a boy growing up in Wells, Somerset, he and his friends would watch goods trains come in loaded with military scrap . He said once of carriages coming in filled to the roofs with wartime British helmets for the scrap man, hundreds and thousands of them!! |
Talking of helmets; my mate lifted some floorboards in one of the huts due for demolition and found all sorts of things. The most gruesome being a German helmet complete with a desiccated skull !!! |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3829 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Ray White wrote: | Rootes75 wrote: | I recall my Father telling me that when he was a boy growing up in Wells, Somerset, he and his friends would watch goods trains come in loaded with military scrap . He said once of carriages coming in filled to the roofs with wartime British helmets for the scrap man, hundreds and thousands of them!! |
Talking of helmets; my mate lifted some floorboards in one of the huts due for demolition and found all sorts of things. The most gruesome being a German helmet complete with a desiccated skull !!! |
That is Gruesome!!! _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6338 Location: Derby
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Rootes75 wrote: | Ray White wrote: |
Talking of helmets; my mate lifted some floorboards in one of the huts due for demolition and found all sorts of things. The most gruesome being a German helmet complete with a desiccated skull !!! |
That is Gruesome!!! |
Gruesome but true. Needless to say we ran away and never went back! |
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